[Final Authority]

Do you really wish that you or I could and thereby, should, possess a live nuclear weapon? Should I have a 50 caliber machine gun nest in my front yard? Should I keep a RPG or SAM in my car just in case I have to defend myself?

That is the sense of my first sentence. I don't want anything to be banned but reasonable people have to act and agree to do reasonable things.

So, although I wish there to be no laws banning weapons, reasonable people doing reasonable things, see the need to keep things reasonable, so what you referred to as conflicting statements, weren't.

With respect to lug nuts on a birthday cake, I have never seen it or experienced it, but, I guess, it takes one to know one.

[Graybeard58]

This article you posted is being rehashed here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682765/posts

[Robert A Cook PE]

IF you believed in morality (and you don't) or "self-control" (which your words show you don'r) then you would understand that a PERSON is responsible for his or her own actions.

Yes, I (me!) am safe when I own and have access to a nuclear weapon. (Or an RPG, a sidewinder (actually - not a Sidewider - I can't fly, so my owing a sidewinder makes me dangerous), a handgun, shotgun, or rifle.)

You are safe when when I (me) personally own a nuclear weapon. (Or handgun, rifle, or RPG. You are not safe when I own a Sidewinder - because I can't fly.) That's BECAUSE I can be relied upon to use the weapon safely and while I am under control. (Except thes Sidewinder.)

I am NOT safe when YOU own a weapon, because I CANNOT trust YOU to maintain control of YOUR weapon, nor MY safety.

WE are both safe when Tony Blair has nuclear weapons BECAUSE Tony Blair (Britain) HAS control of his nuclear weapons and HAS CONTROL of himself.

WE are NOT safe when a radical, crazed foreign government that WANTS US DEAD has any weapon: cell phones, dynamite, blasting powder, a 757, a 747, a show bomb, a missile, or a pistol.

Now, do you understand.

YOU are dangerous to ME because YOU DEMAND the right to take away MY protection.

But YOU cannot protect me.